Judge Orders Undisclosed Clinton Emails Be Made Public Next Month

Previously undisclosed emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning the Benghazi attacks will be published beginning next month along with about 15,000 additional Clinton emails, Judicial Watch announced Thursday.

“In a court filing this week, the State Department admitted it had found Benghazi-related documents among the 14,900 Clinton emails and attachments uncovered by the FBI that Mrs. Clinton deleted and withheld from the State Department,” Judicial Watch said in a statement.

“It is astonishing that Hillary Clinton tried to delete and hide Benghazi emails and documents. No wonder federal courts in Florida and DC are ordering the State Department to stop stalling and begin releasing the 14,900 new Clinton emails,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the statement.

Judicial Watch has multiple suits seeking the have the full cache of Clinton emails released.

In one case, the State Department was ordered by a judge to start making the contents of her work-related emails public as of Sept. 13. The State Department had wanted to start releasing the emails in October on the grounds that officials needed that much time to determine which emails were work-related.

The batch of 15,000 emails were uncovered by the FBI during its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The FBI turned them over to the State Department.

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Last year, Clinton gave the State Department about 30,000 emails. These are being release piecemeal by the State Department.

Clinton had said she deleted 30,000 emails that were personal in nature, but the FBI said several thousand of the emails Clinton deleted were in fact work-related.

Additionally, Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered the State Department to begin releasing Benghazi-related records to Judicial Watch by Sept. 30 and that all Benghazi-related documents must be produced by Oct. 31.

A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 30 to determine how many documents will be provided.

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State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau said in a statement that it’s still unclear whether any of the new emails would qualify for release.

“As we have said, the Department agreed to search the materials we received from the FBI in response to several pending FOIA requests and, to the extent responsive records are identified, produce them,” Trudeau said in a statement.

Clinton has received extensive criticism over the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed.

Her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state was investigated by the FBI for several months. Last month, FBI Director James Comey said Clinton’s actions were irresponsible but did not rise to a level that warranted criminal charges.